The goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and working toward a more equal distribution of income are prominent in … countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 … poverty and inequality goals. The paper uses different assumptions about growth incidence curves to model changes in …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two different scenarios for its … poverty years and 4.3 million years of life lost across 150 countries. The ratio of PYs to LYs is very large in most countries …

poverty is critical to designing policies aimed at building resilience and contributing toward the goal of ending poverty … that Somalia experienced in 2016/17 on poverty, hunger, and consumption. The analysis uses a regression framework to … took place before and during the drought, for identification. The drought is found to have a sizable effect on poverty …

and 2017. These surveys provided a long overdue update to poverty numbers in South Sudan, with the previous national … poverty estimates dating as far back as 2009. The escalation and expansion of the civil conflict posed severe challenges to … methodological innovations to establish a reliable system of data collection and obtain valid poverty estimates. Focusing on the 2016 …

and, especially, to estimate national poverty indicators. The specific context of insecurity and lack of statistical … infrastructure in Somalia posed several challenges for implementing a household survey and measuring poverty. This paper outlines how … time on the ground based on the Rapid Consumption Methodology. Third, poverty in completely inaccessible areas had to be …

Small area poverty maps allow for the design of policies based on spatial differences in welfare. They are typically … estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more …

This paper provides an initial analysis of the impact on the World Bank's global poverty estimates of the revised 2011 … and new 2017 PPPs published in May 2020. The revised 2011 PPPs slightly increase poverty in South Asia and Sub …-Saharan Africa, causing the extreme poverty headcount ratio for the world to rise by 0.3 percentage points to 10.3 percent in 2015 …